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The Wine development release 5.0-rc6 is now available.

Barring any last minute issue, this is expected to be the last
release candidate before the final 5.0.

What's new in this release (see below for details):
  - Bug fixes only, we are in code freeze.

The source is available from the following locations:

  https://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/5.0/wine-5.0-rc6.tar.xz
  http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/wine/source/5.0/wine-5.0-rc6.tar.xz

Binary packages for various distributions will be available from:

  https://www.winehq.org/download

You will find documentation on https://www.winehq.org/documentation

You can also get the current source directly from the git
repository. Check https://www.winehq.org/git for details.

Wine is available thanks to the work of many people. See the file
AUTHORS in the distribution for the complete list.

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Bugs fixed in 5.0-rc6 (total 21):

  20465  Brothers In Arms Hell's Highway : Setup asks for DVD for every .cab file (SetupPromptForDiskA/W should only show a dialog if the file doesn't exist)
  37598  Double dark line inside default button, e.g. 'OK' / 'SAVE'
  41459  32bit 7zFM.exe closes unexpectedly with error "The system cannot allocate the required amount of memory"
  43271  Tomb Raider (2013) - unable to use interact key with CSMT
  43272  Crash after click Start button in virtual desktop mode when using Steam
  44408  Tetris for Windows has wrong colors for the game pieces and the score box
  44594  MindManager Pro v7.0 shows XML processing error on startup (needs support for 'exhaustive-errors', 'external-general-entities' and 'external-parameter-entities' features in MSXML SAX reader)
  44664  The Five Cores - distorted rendering
  45732  Far Cry 5 Cannot Steer Land Vehicles
  46036  7-Zip: Endless / infinite dialogs open when you copy a selection of directories from within one .zip file into another
  46361  Sonic Mania freezes/crashes when we use a gamepad on 4.0+
  46616  ABBYY FineReader 14 crashes during installation
  47433  Accel World vs. Sword Art Online needs WTSRegisterSessionNotificationEx() to return true.
  47923  kernel32:debugger tests sometimes fail on Windows 10
  48335  Serious Sam Classic TFE/TSE crash on saving the game
  48416  wine: Call from 0x7bc7b154 to unimplemented function api-ms-win-core-rtlsupport-l1-2-0.dll.RtlInstallFunctionTableCallback, aborting
  48444  Dark Messiah of Might and Magic demo: crash on start
  48452  The Witcher Enhanced Edition (GOG) some HUD graphics distorted starting wine 5.0-rc4
  48454  Acrobat Reader 11 crashes a few seconds after startup
  48458  Changes to scanf.c and scanf.h have resulted in Star Citizen incorrectly showing green lighting
  48469  Pale Moon crashes when loading web page from address bar

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Changes since 5.0-rc5:

Alexandre Julliard (4):
      kernel32: Catch stack overflow faults in IsBad*Ptr() functions.
      winecfg: Fix list of configurable dlls to account for PE files.
      msvcrt: Use unsigned comparisons in strcmp and strncmp.
      wine.inf: Remove the winebus service also for ARM64.

Alistair Leslie-Hughes (2):
      dinput: Cap the buffer size to 20.
      gdiplus: Check status as well before using bitmap.

Andrew Eikum (1):
      mscoree: Don't print FIXME for unused config file elements.

André Hentschel (1):
      d3dx9: Fix some spec file entries.

Can Taşan (1):
      po: Update Turkish translation.

Charles Davis (1):
      dbghelp: Look for .eh_fram if no .eh_frame is found.

Gabriel Ivăncescu (4):
      strmbase: Detach the window from the parent before destroying it.
      quartz/tests: Test video window parent's WM_DESTROY notification.
      winex11.drv: Don't confine the pointer to any window when just checking for active grab.
      msctf: Clear the corresponding DocumentMgr pointers for Associated Focus Windows on destruction.

Jacek Caban (9):
      jscript/tests: Use wide char string literals instead of parse_script_with_error_a.
      jscript/tests: Use wide char string literals instead of parse_htmlscript_a.
      jscript/tests: Use wide char string literals instead of parse_script_a.
      jscript/tests: Use wide char string literals instead of a2bstr.
      jscript/tests: Use wide char string literals instead of strcmp_wa.
      jscript/tests: Use wide char strings in a few more places.
      kernel32/tests: Skip instruction pointer check of the last exception in exception race tests.
      jscript/tests: Use wide char string literals in activex.c.
      jscript/tests: Use wide char string literals in caller.c.

Jeff Smith (1):
      user.exe16: Releasing DC does not disable it.

Michael Müller (2):
      setupapi: Add support for IDF_CHECKFIRST flag in SetupPromptForDiskW.
      setupapi/tests: Add test for IDF_CHECKFIRST and SetupPromptForDiskA/W.

Nikolay Sivov (2):
      comctl32/tests: Add some more ListView customdraw tests.
      dwrite/tests: Improve DrawUnderline() test reliability by using text tested font actually supports.

Paul Gofman (1):
      d3dx9: Pass D3DCOMPILE_ENABLE_BACKWARDS_COMPATIBILITY when appropriate.

Piotr Caban (5):
      msvcrt: Pass catch_func_nested_frame struct to cxx_frame_handler.
      msvcrt: Pass catch_func_nested_frame struct to call_catch_block.
      msvcrt: Fix handling tryblocks inside current catch block on nested exception.
      msvcrt: Fix floating point numbers scanning when null-byte is preceding the number.
      urlmon: Fix CoInternetParse{Url,IUri} spec entry.

Zebediah Figura (11):
      httpapi/tests: Avoid depending on the availability of specific ports.
      netapi32/tests: Fix the size passed to GetUserNameW() and GetComputerNameW() (Coverity).
      include: Add more NTSTATUS codes.
      rpcrt4/tests: Pass the default maximum call limit to RpcServerListen().
      comdlg32/tests: Use GetTempPathA() instead of the current directory in test_extension().
      explorerframe/tests: Remove some failing tests.
      user32/tests: Fix some test failures with Windows 10.
      msi/tests: Fix test_feature_override() to properly clean up its features on removal.
      msi/tests: Fix a crash on Windows 10.
      urlmon/tests: Avoid testing that only certain interfaces are queried.
      urlmon/tests: Make the url tests a bit less verbose by default.

Zhiyi Zhang (2):
      ntdll: Fix some Rtl* functions having wrong calling convention.
      api-ms-win-core-rtlsupport-l1-2-0: Add missing spec file entries.

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Alexandre Julliard
julliard@winehq.org